CALL FOR PAPERS  📣   Experiencing Relief in Early Modern Britain: 1500-1800   We welcome papers from ECRs, PGRs, and established scholars. For more info (e.g., how to submit a paper) please see our website: earlymodernreliefconference2027.wordpress.com #earlymodern #earlymodernists #AcademicSky

So pleased that my article, “How Shakespeare and his contemporaries used music to rouse emotions” has been published in @theconversation.com 🥳🎉 theconversation.com/how-shakespe...

How Shakespeare and his contemporaries used music to rouse emotions

Shakespeare used music in a multitude of ways to delight, amuse, relax, confuse and frighten his audiences.

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🚨Latest pod drop - it's a chat with @drshirleybell.bsky.social about Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage, a new book covering how dynamic the use of music in drama could be, and which is out now! Go to the show description for links! #drama #theatre #music audioboom.com/posts/891282...

Discussing: Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage

Music please!

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It was a pleasure to be interviewed for @sbrackenborough.bsky.social’s new early music blog about my book, Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage. You can read the interview here: mosaicoftheair.substack.com/p/witches-wh...

Witches, Whores and Madmen: Stage Music in the Reign of Charles I

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Last month, I had the pleasure of attending, presenting my paper, ‘“She’s a lady gay”: Challenging the Male Gaze in Ben Jonson’s The New Inn’ and promoting my book, Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage at the wonderful @britgrad.bsky.social conference!

I'm going to try doing some writing on substack - once I figure out how it works! - you can find me here substack.com/@mosaicofthe... First up will be an interview with @drshirleybell.bsky.social on her research into the music of Caroline Drama

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🔊Early access release for our wonderful patrons - it's a chat about Music and Emotion of the Caroline Stage with Dr Shirley Bell. Catch all episodes first on our patreon. #discussing #history #music #drama www.patreon.com/beyondshakes...

Discussing: Music and Emotion (Early Access) | Beyond Shakespeare

Hello, This week it's an early access listen to this discussing episode where I chat with Dr Shirley Bell about her book Music and Emotion o

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Thank you for the mention! Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage is out now!! link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage

This book explores the ways in which emotions were provoked and directed through music and its impact on the theatre audience in a range of Caroline drama.

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Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s June, & with it comes my 279th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, share widely, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

Congratulations Shirley! If anyone would like to review this for sonancejournal.com let me know! #earlymodern 🗃️

Dr Shirley Bell@drshirleybell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My book is out!! 🎉📕🎶🥂🎭

My book is out!! 🎉📕🎶🥂🎭

I really enjoyed speaking about my book at the University of Sheffield today! Thank you to everyone who attended both in person and online, and special thanks to @ellaalton.bsky.social, @emjlynajsh.bsky.social and Mark Jones for being such lovely hosts! @sheffieldcems.bsky.social 🥰

It was a joy to celebrate my book online at @revelsoffice.bsky.social today! Here is the cute little book bunting I made, a printed copy of my book to use as a prop until the real one arrives, my PowerPoint presentation for today, and my lovely profile on the Revels Office website. 🥳🎉📕

🌟On Monday we have a very special event - @drshirleybell.bsky.social will be talking to us about her new book ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’! 🌟 Join us to celebrate Shirley’s wonderful achievement🤩She’ll also be talking to us about the process of talking her thesis into a book🤍

#CfP: “Stuart Drama” conference, 6-9 July 2027, @ljmuofficial.bsky.social. Abstracts by 2 October 2026 #Skystorians #EarlyModernEvents stuartdrama.com

I’ve got some exciting book promotion events coming up over the next couple of months! 🥳🎉📕

I’ve got some exciting book promotion events coming up over the next couple of months! 🥳🎉📕

Update: my book will now be published on 31st May. I’ve also got some exciting book promotion events coming up: @revelsoffice.bsky.social on 18th May, @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on 28th May and @britgrad.bsky.social on 18th June!! 🥳🎉📕

Dr Shirley Bell@drshirleybell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

We’re so excited to have you speak to us, Shirley! 🤩

Dr Shirley Bell@drshirleybell.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Update: my book will now be published on 31st May. I’ve also got some exciting book promotion events coming up: @revelsoffice.bsky.social on 18th May, @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on 28th May and @britgrad.bsky.social on 18th June!! 🥳🎉📕

Update: my book will now be published on 31st May. I’ve also got some exciting book promotion events coming up: @revelsoffice.bsky.social on 18th May, @sheffieldcems.bsky.social on 28th May and @britgrad.bsky.social on 18th June!! 🥳🎉📕

Dr Shirley Bell@drshirleybell.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

Are you interested in #EarlyModern #history? Did you know there are at least 15 active hash tags and 42 starter packs here on BlueSky for you to explore? Check out this thread 🤓

Christian Callisen@ctcallisen.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A (long) thread of (anglophone) #StarterPacks and #feeds of interest to #EarlyModern #skystorians. The first two posts list a sample of hashtags for which Bluesky feeds currently exist. The following forty-two(!) posts list starter packs for scholars of various aspects of early modern history.

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

Delighted to announce that my first monograph, ‘Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage’ will be published by Palgrave on 5 May!! 🥳🎉📕

I submitted the manuscript for my book “Music and Emotion on the Caroline Stage” this week! 🎉🎶📕

the legitimacy of the police in the Anglophone world has been the subject of a lot of debate in recent years. I think early modern England has a lot to tell us about our relationship with the police. blog here: drlucyjsclarke.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/1...

Policing by consent: an early modern perspective

This post derives from some of the work I’ve been doing on my Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship over the last year and a half. For more on these themes, I’ve an article coming out in H…

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Looking forward to presenting my paper on expressions of grief in Ben Jonson’s The Sad Shepherd tomorrow!

MedRen2025@medren2025.bsky.social · last yr.

Welcome all! #medren2025

I had an amazing time at the Moving Music Conference in Cambridge last week!

I’m in Cambridge for the Moving Music conference which starts today at Emmanuel College. I will be speaking about the saraband in Ben Jonson’s Staple of News this afternoon.

Productive library day! 📚 Finished writing another chapter of my book and made a start to my paper for the Moving Music conference which I will be presenting at in Cambridge later this month.

Join us on Thursday 29 May as Lucy Clarke (University of Sheffield) talks on “To give some colour as if they meant the peace”: a practice-based approach to ‘legality’ in early modern England. Email MappingInns@gmail.com for the Zoom link. mappinginns.wordpress.com

Mapping the Early Modern Inns of Court

Visit the post for more.

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En route to Sheffield for tomorrow's workshop. Made a spur of the moment pit stop in Rothwell, the site of the alleged 16th-century assault that I'll be chatting about.

Dr Lucy J.S. Clarke 🇵🇸🏳️‍⚧️🌈 no human is illegal@lucyjsclarke.bsky.social · last yr.

join me, @thegozfather.bsky.social, @lflannigan17.bsky.social, @saracharles.bsky.social, @freemanjones.bsky.social, Clare Egan and Derek Dunne on 23rd May to explore what serving, tearing and eating legal documents in early modern England actually looked like! tinyurl.com/4ras5xtv #skystorians